SOCIOL 134
Culture and Personality
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 1. Designed for juniors/seniors. Theories of relation of variations in personality to culture and group life, in primitive and modern societies, and influence of social role on behavior. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2025 - Jepson's lectures are pretty boring and there are no slides, just a lecture outline. The exams are short answer, about a page for each question, and not too difficult. People in the past have said the questions are the exact same as they are in the study guide, that was no the case when I took it but they were essentially asking the same thing. Class consisted of 6 (or 5?) reflection papers, one page each, a midterm, and final. Despite being short answer, the exams aren't incredibly difficult and honestly you could get away with primarily attending section since there are both section and lecture essay questions to choose from. I believe he gives 10 questions where you have to choose 3 or 4, which you can choose the ones that focus on section questions. Overall super boring class, content was interesting, but not overly difficult.
Spring 2025 - Jepson's lectures are pretty boring and there are no slides, just a lecture outline. The exams are short answer, about a page for each question, and not too difficult. People in the past have said the questions are the exact same as they are in the study guide, that was no the case when I took it but they were essentially asking the same thing. Class consisted of 6 (or 5?) reflection papers, one page each, a midterm, and final. Despite being short answer, the exams aren't incredibly difficult and honestly you could get away with primarily attending section since there are both section and lecture essay questions to choose from. I believe he gives 10 questions where you have to choose 3 or 4, which you can choose the ones that focus on section questions. Overall super boring class, content was interesting, but not overly difficult.
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Fall 2021 - Not gonna lie, when I saw the syllabus and watched the first lecture I was intimidated and thought the class would be difficult, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. Overall it was a pretty good class. The lectures were pre-recorded and the instructions to assignments were all extremely clear. The readings are a lot, but not too hard to get through. Personally, I used a text-to-speech website to help me read them faster. Some articles are very interesting whereas others are very dense and even when I re-read them I still didn't understand them. There are assignments related to the readings that help you understand the material and honestly keep you from procrastinating. The final essay instructions and rubric are very clear. There were no quizzes/tests, just the assigned sources reading assignments, 3 reflections about COVID/personality/culture, and the final essay. She's very straight-forward. Discussion was cool and helped breakdown the week's reading and overall main points. Ty was my TA and he broke things down really well and was super helpful.
Fall 2021 - Not gonna lie, when I saw the syllabus and watched the first lecture I was intimidated and thought the class would be difficult, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. Overall it was a pretty good class. The lectures were pre-recorded and the instructions to assignments were all extremely clear. The readings are a lot, but not too hard to get through. Personally, I used a text-to-speech website to help me read them faster. Some articles are very interesting whereas others are very dense and even when I re-read them I still didn't understand them. There are assignments related to the readings that help you understand the material and honestly keep you from procrastinating. The final essay instructions and rubric are very clear. There were no quizzes/tests, just the assigned sources reading assignments, 3 reflections about COVID/personality/culture, and the final essay. She's very straight-forward. Discussion was cool and helped breakdown the week's reading and overall main points. Ty was my TA and he broke things down really well and was super helpful.
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